REVEILLAUD, EUGENE, b. France, about 1850; of Roman Catholic parentage; was devoted by his mother to the priesthood, but being averse to the vocation was permitted to enter the national schools and study law. As an undergraduate he gained the highest prize. and in the law school attained great honor. Having been received as a barrister lie engaged in a brilliant course of journalism in connection with the provincial papers, and became absorbed in the discussion of the great public questions of the day. Among these be soon saw that the religious question is the one of paramount importance to France. "Religion man have; philosophy, masonry, free-thinking, will not take its place. But where shall the proper religion be found?" The religion of Rome, in his judgment, was not that which France needs. And as he studied the subject, although not himself a Protestant, he became convinced that Protestantism was the clement of national life for the lack of which the French revolution had proved failure. France
therefore must, he was persuaded, embrace the reformed doctrines if only from motives of self-preservation, In the book which he wrote advocating the change, lie said: " The author is not a believer. Born and brought up in Catholicism, he is what people call a free-thinker. His book is not a work of religions propagandism, but an attempt at social preservation." Since that time, however, he has become a Christian believer; and,with drawing himself in a great degree from other employments, devotes his time and talents to the work of through France what he regards as the truth. he has traversed many parts of country lecturing in theaters and public halls to immense throngs of eager listeners. In 1880 he visited the United States, presenting his cause and exciting great interest.